"The hardest thing in the music business to have is your first hit, the hardest. The first song I ever wrote and sang by myself on a record was 'Lady.' I wrote that song for my wife, we'd married in '70, it was '72, I wrote about the things I knew," DeYoung recalled onDec...
New music releases:Sounds of Silence- Simon & Garfunkel; "The Ballad of the Green Berets" - SSgt. Barry Sadler; "This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You)" - The Isley Brothers;Doctor Zhivago- Maurice Jarre Photo: Dezo Hoffman
I think of Eugene O Neills words when I think about Gerry Rafferty a beautiful songwriter who wrote upbeat groovy tunes. Like many of my favourite artists he was a perfectionist socially awkward who had been disillusioned by the music business and its pernicious grip on your spirit after legal...
In reality, country music owes its most profound roots to Black musicians and artists — such as the ones who taught country pioneerJimmie Rodgerseverything he knew about music. Or the ones who wrote the groundbreaking music that was made mainstream byElvis Presley. With any justice, country si...
I think of Eugene O Neills words when I think about Gerry Rafferty a beautiful songwriter who wrote upbeat groovy tunes. Like many of my favourite artists he was a perfectionist socially awkward who had been disillusioned by the music business and its pernicious grip on your spirit after legal...
The Conversation: Pantera were a band of brothers and Machine Head’s Robb Flynn and the band were pretty close. This is the guy who wrote a ‘fuck you’ song (“Aesthetics of Hate”) to a dimwit outsider journalist (we shan’t even speak the poser’s name) who unabashedly insulted ...
The Conversation: Pantera were a band of brothers and Machine Head’s Robb Flynn and the band were pretty close. This is the guy who wrote a ‘fuck you’ song (“Aesthetics of Hate”) to a dimwit outsider journalist (we shan’t even speak the poser’s name) who unabashedly insulted ...
My next door neighbor moved a while ago and wrote a note that said, “I found my people!” She is an artist and refinishes furniture and had a little store downtown the same time I did and moved out of state to Oregon and found a little shop that rents out space, similar to ...
Robin Sloan wrote. “But ‘sensible’ is another word for predictable, overused and boring. My intention here is to produce something unexpected.” I’m unconvinced that writers awarded the Nobel Prize have much to fear from AI. Their work, and that of countless other novelists, short story ...
Can we find ways to convey intonation through word choices, as Alexandra Fuller did in Cocktails Under the Tree of Forgiveness when she wrote, ”Don’t talk to me about behaving,” Auntie Glug says, giving one of her badger growls. “Bugger that.”? Or will we be like Renee, and choos...